INFLUENCE OF KINSHIP IN ADULTERY

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Incest is a sexual intercourse between family members that called " close relatives ". For example fornication between father and daughter, mother and son, brother and sister, uncle and niece, aunt and nephew, grandfather and granddaughter, grandmother and grandson is incest. According to Islamic jurisprudence Punishment of sexual intercourse in normal circumstance is hundred whip but According to Shie jurisprudence death penalty is Punishment of sexual intercourse between close relatives. This Punishment for incest has been recognized by Iran Statutory Criminal law. Article 82 of Islamic Penal Code provided that Punishment for sexual intercourse between close relatives is death penalty. However in sunni jurisprudence – in compare whit shie jurisprudenc – death penalty give sentence for sexual intercourse between "congenial person", " foster relatives " and "marriage kinship".

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